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...mainstream candidates? How about: because they are bored stiff with them. Chirac first served as Prime Minister in - this is not a misprint - 1974. Jospin has been a leading light in the Socialist Party since 1973. Imagine being asked to choose, this year, between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford: you'd look elsewhere...
Carter is the Ford Foundation professor of science and international affairs at the Kennedy School of Government...
...Burbank, Calif. Agar was 24 when a friend enlisted him in 1945 to escort Temple, then 16, to a party. The two married and three years later had a daughter, but Agar's drinking led his wife to file for divorce in 1949. He appeared with Temple in John Ford's cavalry classic Fort Apache and went on to a film career that included westerns, war films and a host of grade-B horror flicks, including Revenge of the Creature and The Brain from Planet Arous...
From a look at the green-toned ads put out by companies such as Ford and the Southern Company, you would think that those in the executive suite spend their days meditating on the wisdom of John Muir and Henry David Thoreau. On the other hand, a look at the day planners of their Washington lobbyists suggests that as soon as these same executives step out of the public eye, they set loose their minions to undo every piece of environmental legislation past, present or future. Ford contributed heavily to the effort to defeat legislation mandating better gas mileage...
...issue of incentives. It is not in an expensive Washington lobbying firm's interest to underestimate a threat to the bottom line. Nor is it in a CEO's interest to ignore trade association research that says a piece of legislation will cost his industry billions. William Clay Ford might be on the board of a major green groups like Conservation International, but when his Washington experts tell him that a rise in fuel economy standards will exacerbate Ford's losses, it's hard to answer, "I believe otherwise...